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Odd sidenote -- when I was growing up in the world of Mac Classics and Windows 3.1, the Mac users were the highlighters of the group. I was a Windows (okay, DOS

by rconti 9y ago

Odd sidenote -- when I was growing up in the world of Mac Classics and Windows 3.1, the Mac users were the highlighters of the group. I was a Windows (okay, DOS->Windows->Linux) guy, so I didn't. I started using OS X in around 2002 and became a highlighter. I always wondered why.

yuchi 9y ago
Happened to me too. Most of us became mac users with Mac Books, and they always had an incredibly responsive touchpad. I believe it’s enough responsive to let us express our finger tics through it. The cursor actually become an extension of the finger.
dfee 9y ago
Perhaps it’s because the highlighting - being a cooler shade of blue - is less jarring and easier on the eyes. Windows: https://www.wintools.info/images/ccp/Highlight-default.png https://www.wintools.info/images/ccp/Highlight-default.png Mac: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Quick-Look-highlight.png http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Qu...
lucideer 9y ago
Current macOS user, but only a very recent convert, and I've been a highlighter as long as I can remember. Though I was previously a Linuxer, so maybe it's non-Windows or terminal correlated.
SllX 9y ago
For me it was the reverse. I was a random highlighter since I was a kid on Windows machines, but after I bought my first Mac the behavior just kind of stopped. I also had another habit I dropped, in part because Mac OS X never supported it, but on Windows I would middle click in the middle of the screen and position the cursor just under the, well, scroll anchor I guess I could call it, leaving the page to auto scroll at a comfortable speed while I took my hands off the mouse and just read. If I recall correctly, if I did it just right, then the page would not just auto scroll, but highlight everything along the way.

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Odd sidenote -- when I was growing up in the world of Mac Classics and Windows 3.1, the Mac users were the highlighters of the group. I was a Windows (okay, DOS

by rconti 9y ago

yuchi 9y ago
Happened to me too. Most of us became mac users with Mac Books, and they always had an incredibly responsive touchpad. I believe it’s enough responsive to let us express our finger tics through it. The cursor actually become an extension of the finger.
dfee 9y ago
Perhaps it’s because the highlighting - being a cooler shade of blue - is less jarring and easier on the eyes. Windows: https://www.wintools.info/images/ccp/Highlight-default.png https://www.wintools.info/images/ccp/Highlight-default.png Mac: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Quick-Look-highlight.png http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Qu...
lucideer 9y ago
Current macOS user, but only a very recent convert, and I've been a highlighter as long as I can remember. Though I was previously a Linuxer, so maybe it's non-Windows or terminal correlated.
SllX 9y ago
For me it was the reverse. I was a random highlighter since I was a kid on Windows machines, but after I bought my first Mac the behavior just kind of stopped. I also had another habit I dropped, in part because Mac OS X never supported it, but on Windows I would middle click in the middle of the screen and position the cursor just under the, well, scroll anchor I guess I could call it, leaving the page to auto scroll at a comfortable speed while I took my hands off the mouse and just read. If I recall correctly, if I did it just right, then the page would not just auto scroll, but highlight everything along the way.